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Dorian in the US

  1. #1,858 Donn
  2. #1,859 Ariana
  3. #1,860 Roxanna
  4. #1,861 Alva
  5. #1,862 Dorian
  6. #1,863 Mikhail
  7. #1,864 Su
  8. #1,865 Mariam
  9. #1,866 Vonda
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Early 20th-century coinage, apparently invented by Oscar Wilde, as no evidence has been found of its existence before he used it for the central character in The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1891). Dorian Gray is a dissolute rake who retains unblemished youthful good looks; in the attic of his home is a portrait which does his ageing for him, gradually acquiring all the outward marks of his depravity. This macabre background has not deterred parents from occasionally bestowing the name on their children. Wilde probably took the name from Late Latin Dorianus, from Greek Dōrieus, denoting a member of the Greek-speaking people who settled in the Peloponnese in pre-classical times. Dorian would thus be a masculine version of Doris. It may have been selected occasionally by admirers of ancient Sparta and its militaristic institutions, since the Spartans were of Dorian stock.
1,862nd in the U.S. for 2011

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Thousands
of people in the U.S have this name
12,124
to be exact (as of February 2011)
15,551
if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
District of Columbia
has the most people named Dorian per capita
2000
marked the height of its popularity
11%
89%
2%
55+
21%
30-54
23%
13-29
54%
0-12

Top state populations

U.S. Distribution Map

Dorian is most likely to live in California, Florida, Texas, New York, and Illinois

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